Desert rains should bring life, not pollution

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Toro Energy want to turn the East Murchison into a uranium mining and radioactive waste precinct with up to 7 uranium mines spread over a 200km area and 2 lake systems. The company plans to truck uranium ore from the mine pits to a central processing facility with radioactive waste tailings dams located on the edge of Lake Way.

Against the EPA’s own advice, each of Toro’s individual mines is being assessed individually without considering the cumulative impacts this network of mines, transport corridors and waste dumps will have on the fragile desert environment.

This piecemeal assessment could ...

Toro Energy want to turn the East Murchison into a uranium mining and radioactive waste precinct with up to 7 uranium mines spread over a 200km area and 2 lake systems. The company plans to truck uranium ore from the mine pits to a central processing facility with radioactive waste tailings dams located on the edge of Lake Way.

Against the EPA’s own advice, each of Toro’s individual mines is being assessed individually without considering the cumulative impacts this network of mines, transport corridors and waste dumps will have on the fragile desert environment.

This piecemeal assessment could mean “death by a thousand cuts” for the East Murchison.

Toro’s latest proposal is open for public comment until the 8th of Feb.

Sign the online submission in opposition to the Wiluna extension here.

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Tell the EPA that the Murchison is no place for uranium mining and nuclear waste dumping.

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The East Murchison is an incredible place – home to fragile desert ecosystems and a vast network of lakes that that burst into amazing life after desert rains.

But if plans to mine uranium and dump radioactive waste in those lakes is allowed to proceed; the same life-giving rains could spread pollution over vast areas - poisoning the landscape and the plants and animals in it. We can’t stop the desert rains, but we can stop the uranium mines.

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Uranium mining is unnecessary, unsafe and unwanted. I am opposed to the Wiluna extension by Toro Energy, which is part of a larger plan to turn the Northern Goldfields and East Murchison into an industrial uranium precinct.

I am opposed to uranium mining at Wiluna because:
* This extension is part of plans for a bigger regional uranium precinct. The EPA should be considering the regional cumulative impacts of uranium mining and mining in the East Murchison. 
* Australia has no example of a successfully rehabilitated uranium mine – all uranium mining leaves behind a toxic legacy on country. 
* Uranium tailings present an environmental risk for no less than 10,000 years - long after this Government and this company are gone. 
* Toro’s plans to store radioactive mine waste so close to a lake system that periodically floods is irresponsible and dangerous.
* Mining uranium creates radioactive waste here, and overseas, posing a public health risk.
* Toro is a small and inexperienced company, they do not have the financing to start the proposed mine let alone rehabilitate or provide upfront bonds to ensure closure.

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